Gabriella Jenei: Referential Cohesion in Academic Writing • A descriptive and exploratory theory- and corpus-based study of the text-organizing role of reference in written academic discourse
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3. A THEORETICAL BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF REFERENCE
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3.1. Definitions of reference

3.1. Definitions of reference

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Defining a word as diversely used as reference is not easy. Reference is a concept that is used in broader, narrower, and sometimes overlapping senses, with a wide range of meanings in the domains of theoretical and applied linguistics. In order to avoid terminological confusion, this chapter shows how the notion of reference appears in a multitude of linguistic theories and which of these interpretations of the term are relevant for this study. The first part of this chapter reviews briefly the interpretation of the concept of reference in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, to finally arrive at the operational definition to be used in this book, which complies with its interpretation in the field of discourse analysis in general.

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Reference is basically achieved through a closed set of grammar words in texts, which contribute to various types of links of different lengths. These words are collected in the taxonomy of cohesive reference in Section 3.3. On the whole, what our discussion leads to is simplifying Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) highly complex taxonomy into a manageable analytical tool. With this background, the chapter ends with discussing the longer chains of reference and the ways in which these links can be analyzed, interpreted, and how existing cohesion analysis methods can be utilized for our present research aim of analyzing reference.

3.1.1. Reference in theoretical linguistics

3.1.2. Reference in discourse analysis

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